The other thing to keep in mind is that Mr. Obama keeps saying that he is moving away from a state of continuous "war" on terror. If so, that is another problem for the drone program, if it's basis (or at least the targeting of U.S. citizens) is that it's legal because we are at war.

7:26 pm February 4, 2014

No amnesia wrote:

A look back--
Neo-con strategy. Abu Grahib.
Corrupt practices in the US Justice Department with hires, firing and what not.. Religious zealots with questionable college credentials doing the hiring of supposedly independent prosecutors, while specifically requiring an oath of loyalty to the administration. And specific religious beliefs.
Kicking out the educated and independent thinkers.
Voting dilution? Racial gerrymandering? A compromise that stipulated that poliicies did not mean minorities had a right to proportional representation. Electoral devices. "Catapauling the propaganda." (Applause from Republicans.)
Propaganda machine in overdrive. Paid political journalists on television? Trying to ensure an uninformed public. Does a free press belong to the one who owns them?

Gerald Hebert, a long term Justice Department attorney observed there was a real war between political appointees and career staff.
One would think that had to be enouraged so people from the Clinton administration would leave.
Conned by the neo-cons.

1:08 am February 5, 2014

Ken Belcher wrote:

We need to return to unambiguously making extra-judicial assassinations illegal - not just for Americans but for everyone.

We either believe in Justice for All, or we don't.

11:15 am March 27, 2014

JCab wrote:

LOL, the Texas real estate and corporate law attorney (read 0% experience in nat'l security issues/law) under whose watch the infamous torture memos were drafted, which advocated the abdication of our treaty obligations regarding torture under the Geneva Conventions ANd under whose tenure the targeted killings of Americans by drones began, now has "misgivings" of its use by an administration from the opposing party...I don't understand how his head hasn't assploded from all the cognitive dissonance at play here.

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